Yevhenia Tokar is a Current Time TV journalist based in Kyiv.
Current Time’s Yevhenia Tokar toured a few of the dachas that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy earlier this summer ordered 20 ex-state officials to vacate. One of those officials, ex-Prosecutor-General Svyatoslav Piskun, insists that he should be reimbursed for property repairs he made.
An attempt to “nationalize” so-called “ownerless” real estate in parts of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region controlled by pro-Russian separatists has become the latest challenge for Kyiv’s struggle to exert authority over the area.
Thousands of Russians took to the streets the evening of April 21, 2021 to urge the government to allow jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny access to private physicians and, ultimately, to release him from prison. Current Time spoke with protesters in Moscow about their views.
Seven years after its 2014 annexation by Russia, Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula that once thrived on tourism, is struggling to find adequate drinking water. Ukraine, which formerly supplied most of Crimea’s potable water, refused to continue those supplies once Russia took over the peninsula.
